She drinks sake in a shrine offering box until a stranger changes everything. Messy? Obviously.
An erotic drama in which the director Tetsuya Takehora, the scriptwriter Hiroko Fukazawa, and the starring Nanami Kawakami have reunited. Miwa, a communicative disorder, spends her days hiding behind the offering box at the shrine and soaking in sake while keeping a distance from the world. One day, she meets a middle-aged man who came to visit a shrine, and she is attracted to each other as she talks without showing up to the other person. Miwa began to feel confident in living through interaction with him ...
Acting
Kawakami's physical performance without face-to-face scenes.
Direction
Takehora turns a pink film premise into genuine melancholy.
Director
Tetsuya Takehora
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films in Japan have a mandated 70-minute runtime; this runs 85, suggesting distributor negotiations or creative stubbornness.
Takehora belongs to a wave of 'pink auteurs' using exploitation budgets to fund genuine indie sensibilities—Miwa's selective mutism reads as metaphor for the genre's own struggle to be heard as art.
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